Tag archive for: digital marketing

With the passing of Nobel Laureate John Nash comes an opportunity to look beyond the popular story of his vexed personal life as recounted in “A Beautiful Mind” and discover – or rediscover – how his mathematical insights changed the way economists think about competition, and what they mean to marketers. If you’re intrigued I recommend The… Read More

FT recently broke the story of alleged plans by mobile carriers in Europe to use ad-blocking tech from a company called Shine to intercept ads on their networks. Shine is an Israeli company that got its start in high-tech security and anti-virus solutions for carriers and has now developed ad blocking solutions that are “embedded in… Read More

Verizon’s bid to acquire AOL for $4.4B dollars seems like a head-scratcher at first, but on closer inspection makes a great deal of sense for both companies and, more importantly, could offer substantial benefits to the marketplace, especially marketers, who should pay attention to its implications. Before we can analyze it rationally, we must first… Read More

Digital marketing has been a wellspring of new and re-purposed vocabulary. From “1st-party data” through “engagement,” and “programmatic” to “verification” this industry has not been shy about injecting words with new meanings. But over the past few months it’s become clear to me that there’s a broad category of practices at the center of digital… Read More

Like many technical topics in the “big data” realm, marketing analytics is very exciting for insiders, but for most people it probably sounds like just another over-hyped, invasive way to sell a little more mouthwash. But I’d like to argue it’s actually one of the most under-hyped topics around. Its relative, privacy, certainly gets plenty… Read More

The dawn of a new year is a traditional time for predictions. Gartner published many back in November, including these from the Marketing Leaders team (subscription required), but not all of our predictions made it into our reports. For one thing, the ones we published looked at longer horizon than just the coming year. They… Read More

If anyone had any doubts about the seriousness of Oracle’s intention to be leader in digital marketing solutions, its decision to buy Datalogix should erase all skepticism. (Announcement here.) Most industry watchers predicted that Datalogix, a leader in tying offline consumer purchase data to online identity and behavior, was about to be acquired by Nielson… Read More

At first it might seem counterintuitive: a company that makes 90% of its revenue – about $54 billion a year – from advertising offering consumers a way to block its ads. On closer inspection though, the Google Contributor is genius, and likely to be full of insightful discoveries for marketers and publishers. First, it’s undoubtedly engineered… Read More

We’ve all met a few: the master sales person. Armed with the same product and the same audience, these people outsell their peers by orders of magnitude. Clearly, personality and looks are a factor: they appear more trustworthy, more credible and forthright. But there’s something else. They’re also experts at reading a prospect’s signals –… Read More

Any sci-fi buff will tell you that robot uprising is about the most popular trope in the genre: The Matrix, Terminator, Battlestar Galactica…clearly the theme has legs. As the Internet of Things blurs the lines between our physical and digital worlds, robots and intelligent agents are shaking off their legacy metallic sci-fi associations and assuming… Read More